IOS

Whatsapp is quite a feature-rich messaging app. It offers end-to-end encryption which few mainstream messaging apps do, and it allows users to forward messages, make audio and video calls, send files, and send voice messages, among other many impressive things. Whatsapp even has business accounts and because it is so …

Whatsapp is an exceptionally popular messaging app. In some countries, it is the go-to messaging app for a large chunk of the population and many carriers offer specialized data plans that cater to its use. Whatsapp normally is used for both work and for personal messaging and calls. Unfortunately, you …

iOS has a dark and a light mode. The dark mode on iOS is pretty great but a lot of apps need to add support for it. With iOS, Apple has been smart and it’s taken ideas from what users have done with the light/dark mode that was implemented on …

The iPad, ever since it transitioned away from iOS and began running iPadOS has moved towards supporting better multitasking on the device. If you look at how the device behaved in its early years and compare it to its present features, it’s obvious that the device’s features have been built …

Privacy is a huge focus on iOS 14. It hasn’t introduced any major features beyond widgets and the App Library but it has changed how most permissions are managed for apps. One major area where iOS 14 has changed the information that an app has access to is the location …

Whatsapp users forward messages a lot, so much so that the company has had to add restrictions to prevent fake news from spreading through the app. Media, usually images and videos, are circulated over Whatsapp either over groups or over one-on-one chats. On Android phones, the media is saved directly …

The Instagram icon has gone through a few changes over the years. The most notable change was its current icon which not a lot of users liked. App icons aren’t easy to change and on iPhone, it’s almost impossible to change an app icon without jailbreaking your phone, unless the …

iOS 14 has a picture-in-picture mode that works on any website that can play a video. The only condition is that the website is accessed via Safari. Other apps, such as the Netflix app, support it so you can watch Netflix in picture-in-picture mode on your iPhone. One app that …

iOS 14 has a new Picture-in-Picture mode which allows users to play videos in a small, thumbnail size on their screen while they use other apps. iPadOS got this feature last year but it seems to have popular enough for Apple to add it to iOS. Picture-in-picture mode Picture-in-picture mode …

iPhones get one major OS update every year, and several smaller updates in-between. These smaller updates are usually minor features or bug fixes. Each major iOS update also takes one year off an iPhone’s life i.e., how long Apple will support. iOS updates, generally speaking, are optional but iPhone users …